Identification of Somatic Disorders Related to Psychoactive Drug Use from an Inpatient Database in a French University Hospital

ConclusionsCombining extraction of ICD-10 codes and a focused review of a preselection of relevant hospitalisations appears to be efficient and time-saving. This method should be applied in other hospital settings before considering the exploration of inpatient data on a wider scale.
Source: Clinical Drug Investigation - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research